Renner, Laura; Krieger, Tim; Ruhose, Jens - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014
This paper looks at the e ffect of cultural barriers on the skill selection of international migration. The data covers bilateral migration stocks by skill level in 2000 from about 99 sending countries to the main 15 destination countries. We use genetic distance as a proxy for cultural distance...